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- IAB to FTC: Rescind blogger rules
- Completely self-servingBy this rationale, why does anyone ever have to disclose anything? You can apply this logic to traditional media as well. Afraid to admit in the blog that you got the stuff you rave about was free? The real impact is it opens a channel for the vendor to...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, blogger, free speech, traditional media, blog, blogging, Interactive Advertising Bureau, FTC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Student free speech vs. taxpayer rights
- Student free speech vs. taxpayer rightsThere are several issues at work hereFirst, the philosophy that all ideas have equal merit. It isn't true. A film that labels itself XXX (the MPAA doesn't give XXX ratings; it's done for promotional purposes by the movie maker) has zero merit. There is no...
- Tags: Free Speech, Taxpayer, taxpayer
- Discussion threads 2009-04-08
- Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam case
- Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam caseStill think the case was wrongly decidedBut it's not my opinion that's legally binding. The courts have the right to be wrong, but not the right to be above criticism, or to have people automatically assume that their decisions are correct.Twisted...
- Tags: Spam, antispam case, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
- Does Drew decision criminalize TOS violations?
- Does Drew decision criminalize TOS violations?I am sorry, but that verdict was bull and it will and MUST be overturned.Yet another instance of prosecutors grasping at straws. yes, people wanted to see this chick do some time for bullying this girl verbally... but doesnt what they are doing amount...
- Tags: Free Speech, Does Drew, Does Drew decision, TOS
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- Google Finance gets update, and people hate it
- Google Finance gets update, and people hate itIf you want something better, PAY FOR IT!!!Don't like something that is free, stop using it. There are a few more providers in cyberspace.Or better yet, shut the hell up and pay for the service. Once you pay, then you have the right...
- Tags: Google Finance, finance, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOA
- Over WiFi at DIA, free speech is DOAGriping about... a loss of freedom and dissing the relatives of our troops in the same blog makes you a pinhead. Take your political leanings back to the Huffington Post where they belong.These same freedom fighter are at the front of organizing...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Free Speech, DIA, DOA, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- Free speech, sophomoric pranks, or criminal offense?
- Free speech, sophomoric pranks, or criminal offense?False statements can be VERY harmful...especially if expressed by a popular student or someone perceived as "honest." I put honest in quotes because I've met many people who are very assertive not aggressive in their statements, yet have rarely told the truth or the...
- Tags: INTERNET, Free Speech
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Congress limps toward concluding that bloggers can be journalists
- Anne Broache has excellent coverage of a House panel's vote today to extend reporters' privileges to bloggers who gain some sort of financial benefit. My personal take is Congress should leave the money factor out of it and stick with the definition Anne reports:The bill defines the practice of...
- Tags: Free speech, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Chris Pirillo is socialsquatted; does the law care?
- Chris Pirillo is on Pownce at pownce.com/chrispirillo, and has 69 friends. Or wait, that's not Chris. I can scarcely catalog the related legal considerations, which include:Can Chris stop someone from using his name and likeness without his consent? Possibly, under right of publicity laws, but the ones...
- Tags: Trademark, Tags, Social networking, Live Web, Identity, Free speech, Defamation
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- Facebook and employment: an equal opportunity information trap
- After years of "fired blogger" stories in the headlines, it's fairly well understood that a frivolous, embarrassing, out-of-context, or ill-considered online data trail can and does cause problems for employment candidates and employees. But when CollegeRecruiter.com asked employment lawyer and blawger George Lenard to examine the increasingly common employer...
- Tags: Voice, Trust, Social networking, Privacy, Marketing, Free speech, Anonymity, Collaboration
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- U.K. jails trio who incited terrorism over Web
- U.K. jails trio who incited terrorism over WebIt was said before the eternal September...It's still true.The internet is a lousy place to hatch plots.Your "secret" email can be forwarded anywhere, and might be preserved at any intermediate location between sender and recipient. That's even more true of the web.not to...
- Tags: Homeland security, Web site development, Channel management, Web technology, Free Speech, Internet, child pornography, Web, terrorism, Web site
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- Global Legal Challenges: General Counsel forum, Stanford's E-Commerce Best Practices conference
- (Mark Lemley, Maren Christensen, Daniel Cooperman)There's a group of high profile in-house counsel participated today in the General Counsel forum at Stanford Law School's Fourth Annual E-Commerce Best Practices conference, including: Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School and Keker & Van Nest LLP Maren Christensen, Universal Studios Daniel Cooperman, Oracle Clint Smith, MySQL Kent Walker, Google Ian...
- Tags: Software, Search, Patent, Lawsuits, Free speech, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences, Compliance, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Teen's free speech rights restored after judge deems her a delinquent
- Teen's free speech rights restored after judge deems her a delinquentFree SpeechIt seems obvious that this girl had the right to say anything that she wanted in her own space on her own time. The principal of the school also has the right to enforce school rules, regardless of...
- Tags: Free Speech
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- Blogging codes of conduct: consensus still seems unlikely
- My thoughts about consensus on a blogging code of conduct are unchanged: consensus is unlikely, but the discussion is useful. Here are some comments I sent this morning to an editor at Der Spiegel Online (is it just me, or is the tenor of these questions in keeping...
- Tags: Voice, Trust, Free speech, Live Web, Defamation, Collaboration, Blogging, Attention, Anonymity
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Tags are conversations
- On YouTube that is, even among Presidential hopefuls. Check out Joe "First Post" Bidens response to JD Lasica. Terrific work, Jeff, keep wielding that microphone and encouraging folks to speak into theirs.
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Tags, Free speech
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Podcast on the law of business communities
- The conference call Mike Madison and I recorded earlier this week in anticipation of our session at Community 2.0 more here and here is now available as part of the Bag and Baggage Podcast or from the Future of Communities blog. We talked about: Defining community and loosely-joined...
- Tags: Attention, Blogging, Collaboration, Compliance, Conferences, Copyright, Defamation, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, Trademark, User generated content, Virtual worlds, Voice
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Counter-notification intelligence (or, getting your wrongly removed clip back on YouTube)
- Lawyer, assistant professor, and Chilling Effects founder Wendy Seltzer chronicles the process of combating an overreaching DMCA takedown notice, and gets her initially removed clip, a Superbowl excerpt highlighting the NFLs copyright notice, restored. Nothing like coming out swinging. In order, from Wendy:2/8/07, My First YouTube: Superbowl...
- Tags: Video, User generated content, Social networking, DMCA, Free speech, Copyright
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Blogging jury duty
- Next Mondays issue of the National Law Journal includes an article Juror Blogs Complicate Trials about the uneasy marriage between ubiquitous publishing and communications technologies and the courtroom, specifically in the context of jury duty. It points out that jurors are increasingly posting about their experiences to their blogs,...
- Tags: Blogging, Free speech, Lawsuits, Podcasting, User generated content, Voice, Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Take two: public conference call on the law of business communities
- Our rescheduled conference call in anticipation of Community 2.0 details here takes place today at 1:00 p.m. PST/3:00 p.m. EST. Call-in details are here, please join us if you are interested.
- Tags: Attention, Blogging, Collaboration, Conferences, Copyright, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, User generated content, Virtual worlds, Voice
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Courts continue to immunize community sites under CDA Section 230, but what about the Live Web?
- Hard on the heels of a Texas district courts recent decision to dismiss claims against MySpace, Howard Bashman spotted a recent Section 230 decision out of the First Circuit that continues in this vein, and emphasizes the clear judicial trend of applying Section 230s protections to Web sites acting as...
- Tags: User generated content, Mashups, Defamation, Podcasting, Live Web, Free speech, Copyright, Blogging, Anonymity
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
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